Employee engagement transforms technical college

The president and CEO of Calgary’s SAIT Polytechnic threw out the old, “staid” ways when she came on in 1998. In the past few years, registration has grown by 20,000.
By Matt Wilson | Posted: June 26, 2012
When Irene Lewis took over as president and CEO of SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta, in 1998, she knew communications would play a major part in turning the institute around. “When I arrived, I think most people considered SAIT to be stable, but staid,” she told the audience at Monday’s opening session at the annual International Association of Business Communicators World Conference in Chicago, just after winning the association’s 2012 Excellence in read more...

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